Various Artists - Mountain Duet - Текст песни

Benny Andersson, Tim Rice, and Bjorn Ulvaeus

FLORENCE:

 This is the one situation I wanted most to avoid

 Nothing I say will convince him this isn't a trick.

 THE RUSSIAN:

 A drink on a clear moonlit night -- I relax, she

 smiles

 There's something peculiar going on.

 FLORENCE:

 So with immaculate timing, I'm left to carry the

 can

 Embarrassed, outnumbered, marooned --

 THE RUSSIAN:

 Now she can't be working for them -- I mean

 us --

 She seems so very straightforward -- but where

 is he?

 FLORENCE:

 He has to come back -- he wanted this meeting,

 well didn't he?

 THE RUSSIAN:

 Maybe he's scared -- just as scared as he was

 in the game.

 FLORENCE:

 Oh, I just couldn't care less

 He can go right ahead, go and wreck his career,

 I know I've done my best

 THE RUSSIAN:

 Well at least she's a good-looking spy.

 FLORENCE:

 What if my Russian friend thinks that my plans

 Are more of an intimate kind?

 If I don't say something else soon

 He'll go -- Nobody's on nobody's side!

 THE RUSSIAN:

 Listen, I hate to break up the mood

 Get to the point, begin the beguine

 Haven't you noticed we're a protagonist short

 In this idyllic, well-produced scene?

 FLORENCE:

 All I can say is moments ago

 He was right here ready and waiting

 THE RUSSIAN:

 Never mind him -- I haven't missed him so far.

 BOTH:

 Maybe it won't do any harm

 To struggle on without his charm

 Funny how all at once I feel that he can go

 jump off the mountain

 I won't care

 FLORENCE:

 This is the one situation I wanted most to avoid

 THE RUSSIAN:

 My dear opponent -- I really can't imagine why

 FLORENCE:

 So I am not dangerous then? -- what a shame!

 THE RUSSIAN:

 Oh, you're not dangerous -- who could think

 that of you?

 BOTH:

 You -- you are so strange -- why can't you be

 what you ought to be?

 You should be scheming, intriguing, too clever

 by half --

 THE RUSSIAN:

 I have to had it to you

 For you've managed to make me forget why I

 ever agreed to this farce.

 BOTH:

 I don't know why I can't think of anything

 I would rather do

 Than be wasting my time

 On mountains with you.